Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-02
IN THE EAST.

Friday night, 9th, as the fast line
west on the Pennsylvania R. R., was near
Kittening Point, the wheel of freight
train burst, and the car crashed into two
passenger coaches with terrible effect,
killing instantly four men and injuring
nine others. The killed were Dal Graham,
son of ex-Speaker Graham, Allegheny, Pa. !;
j. H. Stauffer of Lewisville, Ohio; Wymer
Snyder,:a a one-legged man OF Shaomkin,
Pa; John Doris, a newsboy of East
Liberty, Pa; Frank McCue of New York
city, Charles Beidelman of Brimfield, Noble
county, Ind. No passengers occupying
sleeping or parlor cars were injured. The
accident was an unavoidable one, and the
worst that has happened for years on the
Pennsylvania road. The injured were
brought to Altoona, and were made as
comfortable as possible.
A great fire in New York city on the
morning of the Goth burned the Belt line
street railway stables with 1900 horses, and
the homes of poor families and two large
six story tenement blocks, every floor hav-
ing from four to five families. 1t is not now
known that there was any loss Of life,
though several firemen had to be sent to the
hospital from prostration. The loss is
Sl,O00,G00.
Two newspaper <reporters of Phila-
delpnia, Pa, were killed Saturday. They
had been out to report picnic at the
State Fair Grounds and running to catch a
train, one tripped on rail and fell, the
other failing on his companion, and in this
position both were run over by the train.
Editor O'Brien passed Sunday ct
Niagara Falls, but was zoo distinguished
a person to secure day of rest. 1t turns
out that t@oof his ribs are partially de-
tached, and it was feared he would be laid
by for two or three weeks
A four-story brick building, and z
Hall place, New York in the course of demo
lition, collapsed Monday afternoon, aud
buried 10 men in the ruins. Seven of them
". The other three narrowly escaped with
their lives. Two of the wounded, Fred Rapp
and Carl Schneider, will probe5ly die.
An east-bound way freight train on
the st. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain rail.
road ran into a wash-eut twelve miles east
Of Morrisville, Vt, Friday evening. The
fireman was killed and the conductor and
engineer were badly injured. The engine
and five cars are in the Wash-out,
+ Frankfort and Amsterdam, holders
of Kansas Pacific bonds have begun suit
against Jay Gould and Russell Sage for
s5,000,000, based upon information that
came out in the recent Union Pacific inves-
tigation. A bitter legal fight is expected.
The Steamers Brittanic and Celtic
collided at sea on the 10th, the former being
disabled and obliged to put back to New
York, from which she had just sailed. P.
B. Groat of St Paul, Mimi, was a passen-
ger on the Brittanic.
Three Pan Handle freight robbers
have been sentenced; one to three years,
one to 80 months and one to 20 months in
the penitentiary. by the court a. Pittsburg,
Pa 7ta
The general executive board of the
knights Of Labor has decided to personally
inyestigate the strike in the Pennsyl ylvania
coke regions.
The Union club of New York, has re-
fused to admit W. J. Florence, haeing de-
caded not to admit actors to membership.
John casgFeys, Eessph zeleiski and